Category Archives: Leadership

What role will HR adopt in the new world of work and business?

COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on the world. Governments and businesses have been challenged as never before. Leaders are struggling to not only manage the immediate, but also the long-term impact for their businesses. The crisis has dramatically exposed many businesses for their lack of any kind of organisational resilience. As customer demand evaporated, Zombie companies saddled with enormous layers of debt and a lack of cash reserves expired almost overnight.

Developing the art of resilience

If we required a reminder of our need for resilience, the pandemic provides it.

Everybody has to go through difficult times in their life; some more than others. But the way we manage these situations determines how we are going to handle similar situations in the future and what we learn from them.

The sustainable design opportunity offered by the global pandemic

A simple proposition has emerged from the personal experience of most knowledge workers during the last six or seven months. Working from home… works! Not on its own necessarily, and not for everyone, but as a broad idea…it works.

Trust does not need sympathy

The American industrialist Jean Paul Getty is said to have once stated that contracts are useless. If you can trust your partner, you don’t need contracts, and if you can’t trust them, contracts are useless. The well-known saying of trust and control should be reversed: Control is good, trust is better. Trust is well researched, we know how it is created and how it can be lost again, how it can be strengthened and how it has to be earned.

The Making of the Modern Elder Marketplace

The world is getting greyer. 10,000 people in the US turn 65 years old every day. By 2025, the population aged 65 or above in China may hit 300 million. The number of Americans aged 50 and above who are working has grown significantly over the past decade, and is expected to keep increasing. In many countries the seasoned worker is also the fastest growing part of the workforce.

Quo Vadis Univer-Cities 2066

This blog is presented as an accompaniment to a presentation Sabine Hoffmeister and Andrew Chadwick produced for a session at the EFMD Dean’s Conference. The session was entitled ‘The future of space management for Business Schools’. The intention of this piece was to open attendees minds to the psychology of space and it uses an…

HR & The Hype Cycle of Corporate Initiatives

Can HR professionals escape the “peak of inflated expectations” and “trough of disillusionment? In the fast-moving world of IT and software applications, Gartner Research reigns supreme. As one of the world’s leading IT research companies its latest pronouncements on what’s “hot” and “in-vogue” are eagerly awaited by professionals and corporates alike. A key aspect of…